Does it still shimmer? The A.V. Club revisits Annihilation
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Alex Garland’s Civil War may be the movie of the month, but before Kirsten Dunst or Cailee Spaeny ever picked up their cameras to document a crumbling, divided America, Natalie Portman’s Lena set out with a team of three other scientists to explore an equally terrifying phenomenon called The Shimmer in the director’s…